Algeria: Adventurers, Go Home!

When Algeria's shadowy new regime finally
found its voice last week, foreigners and Algerians alike could hardly
believe their ears. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the gaunt, fiery-eyed
army commander who ousted Ahmed ben Bella last month, left no doubt of
his aims or of his determination to achieve them. "Algeria," he
proclaimed, "just wants to be Algeria."

In his first speech since the coup, Boumedienne explained to graduating
students at a gendarmerie school that the nation would no longer dabble
in international revolution and intrigue. Nor, he warned, would his
government tolerate the "adventurers who intruded themselves into our
country" during Ben...